Parable of the Talents
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Sep 24, 2026
Becky EichorstGUEST
You need to learn how to have discipline because God's looking down at you and you are managing the money that he is giving you and blessing you with.
Becky EichorstGUEST
So, you know, it goes back to the parable of the talents where, I really want, yeah, right.
Becky EichorstGUEST
I want him to say, well done, you good and faithful servants.
Becky EichorstGUEST
You have been faithful with little.
Rick WarrenHOST
If you don't, pull out your message notes, and all of the verses we're gonna look at are there.
Rick WarrenHOST
This is called the Parable of the Talents.
Rick WarrenHOST
Now, many people misunderstand this parable because it has the word talent in it, and when we hear the word talent, we think of gifts, abilities, uh, you know, your shape, your personality, your spiritual gifts, your heart, the, the things you love to do, what you're naturally good at.
Rick WarrenHOST
The word, the English word talent actually comes from this chapter in the Bible.
KimberlyHOST
And we also hear about not growing weary of doing good.
KimberlyHOST
What really comes to mind is the story, the parable about the parable of the talents.
KimberlyHOST
So with the parable of the talents, you have everybody that has been given all these different talents and three different ways of doing it.
KimberlyHOST
Some have went and invested it.
KimberlyHOST
Both, two of them had done that.
Matt WietfeldtGUEST
And just even in 24, we've got Jesus talking about the abomination of desolation, the coming of the Son of Man, and then kind of dives into this lesson that can be learned from the fig tree.
Matt WietfeldtGUEST
all to take us to then this parable of the talents.
Matt WietfeldtGUEST
So Jesus is coming and teaching about his return and the final judgment.
Matt WietfeldtGUEST
And if you look just a couple of verses past what we're talking about today, you even have Jesus specifically talking about, and what you'll probably be talking about tomorrow, Jesus specifically talking about the final judgment and what that's going to look like.
Mike SchmitzHOST
Go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.' And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.
Mike SchmitzHOST
Afterward the other maidens came also, saying, 'Lord, lord, open to us.' But he replied, 'Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.' Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour." The Parable of the Talents.
Mike SchmitzHOST
"For it will be as when a man going on a journey called his servants and entrusted to them his property.
Mike SchmitzHOST
To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability.
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Mike SchmitzHOST
So I have to develop that on my own.
Mike SchmitzHOST
I have to choose the Lord on my own, and that's what it is to be ready, and it's just really powerful.
Mike SchmitzHOST
Al- also, we have the parable of the talents and the judgment of the nations.
Mike SchmitzHOST
Parable of the talents is that sense of, you know, we heard about the fig tree.
Nicholas LeoneGUEST
It empowers us to create wealth and live generously, take care of the poor, and, um, create a society that, that, that flourishes.
Andrew KolvetHOST
Well, so go into the, the parable of the talents.
Andrew KolvetHOST
Sorry, I'm going off script here a little bit, but it's just, like, you know, the parable of the talents, when you say it's a, it's sort of a, a recipe for, you know, creating wealth, ex- explain what you mean by that 'cause I think it's spot on.
Nicholas LeoneGUEST
Yeah, so back in Deuteronomy, it says, um, God has given us the power to create wealth to confirm his covenant with us, right? He wants society to flourish.
Nicholas LeoneGUEST
It's good.
Nicholas LeoneGUEST
But there's so many stories about business.
Nicholas LeoneGUEST
There's...
Nicholas LeoneGUEST
And we're talking about the, this parable of the talents.
Sunkanmi OlowoGUEST
Just like, similar to that parable that we have.
Sunkanmi OlowoGUEST
In the parable of the talents.
Sunkanmi OlowoGUEST
Similar to it.
Sunkanmi OlowoGUEST
What God has given you, the time he has given you, are you wasting it? Or you are making it into cans? I pray that the Lord will help us.
Mark VinetteHOST
Jesus used parables throughout his ministry to communicate and connect with different groups of people, and to challenge conventional wisdom and encourage his audience to consider a deeper meaning.
Mark VinetteHOST
His parables, however, often left listeners confused, mystified, or puzzled, such as with the powerful Parable of the Talents.
Mark VinetteHOST
Let's listen to the Hearing Jesus Podcast's historical and spiritual analysis of these scriptural passages.
Rachael GrollSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Matthew 25.
Rick WarrenHOST
Now, this is so important, Jesus told a whole story about the fear of failure.
Rick WarrenHOST
It's called the Parable of the Talents.
Rick WarrenHOST
Now, we actually get our word talent from this story.
Rick WarrenHOST
Today, when I say the word talent, you think of abilities like a musical talent or a mathematical talent or mechanical talent or a, a sports talent.
Chris WilsonHOST
That's the parable of the bags of gold.
Chris WilsonHOST
Is that the parable of the talents? Yeah, talents.
Chris WilsonHOST
So
Anthony McDanielGUEST
he comes back from his journey.
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